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Cloudscape Brazil 2019 & WCN- Workshop on Cloud Networks Using secure Cloud & IT Services to push market Innovation Leadership -Practical Examples between European & Brazilian endeavours

15th-16th July 2019, Amazon Convention Centre, Belém (Brazil), co-located with CSBC 2019

“How Secure Cloud & IT Services make for greater market innovation leadership” was one of the principal discussion points between cloud computing & data expert Europeans & Brazilians at this 6th edition of Cloudscape Brazil, combined with the 4rd edition of the Workshop on Cloud Networks (WCN).

Cloudscape Brazil 2019 over two buzzing days drew in a remarkable crowd of business savvy individuals, public sector representatives and research scientists connected with peers behind some of the most forward thinking developments in cloud technologies. The event demonstrated how Cloud Computing is shaping the future of technology, together with other timely news making ICT technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Edge Computing, amongst others. The forum also showcased multiple success stories across a number of sectors and organisations, highlighting common priorities in Brazil and Europe to facilitate consensus on actions that matter for economies and socio-economic aspects.

As with the previous edition of Cloudscape, this year’s provided a spotlight to Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and EU-BR research projects to showcase their ICT tools and services, resulting from a long-lasting and successful transatlantic cooperation. Cloudscape Brazil worked as a networking event between Europeans and Brazilians. In this year’s edition a European SME (Ortelio) and a Brazilian one (Amachains) are now discussing cooperation’s opportunities on how to securely distribute robot software.

Thanks to a long partnership with the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC), Cloudscape Brazil has always been co-located at CSBC (Congress of Brazilian Computing Society). CSBC aims to promote and foster the exchange of experience between scientific, academic, and professional communities in several computer science areas (see chapter “Cloudscape Brazil immediate impact – Connecting SMEs for Innovative ICT services”.

Cloudscape was co-located with the Workshop of Cloud Networks (WCN), a half-day session this year organised by the Special Interest Group (SIG) of Cloud Computing, from SBC. The SIG on Cloud Computing is a successful outcome of EUBrasilCloudFORUM project, a EU-BR funded project from the 3rd EU-BR coordinated call.

This report was produced by the ATMOSPHERE project consortium, a partner in the project co-funded by the European Commission under the H2020 Research and Innovation Cooperation Programme, and by Brazilian RNP and MCTIC.

The information and views set out in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the European Commission and may not be held responsible for the use which may be made of the information contained therein. Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged

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Expectations & Future Policy Vision in ICT between Brazil & Europe –

Session 1, Cloudscape Brazil Opening Session

Chaired by Wanderson Paim de Jesus, Brazilian National Research and Education Network (RNP)

“EU and Brazil celebrate 10 years of very successful and fruitful cooperation”, stated Carlos Oliveira, Counsellor for Information Society and Digital Market at the EU Delegation in Brazil. With such a thriving legacy, it is crucial to carefully understand what lies ahead. Europe wants to support Brazil in developing high-value technologies such as High Performance Computing (HPC), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Advanced Manufacturing, Cyber Security, amongst others, the pillars to setup the Industry 4.0 in the biggest country of Latin America. The goal is to open the wave of technologies that changes people lives and promote social economic development in Brazil. These 4 joint EU-BR coordinated calls are having an important impact in both regions’ economies. But, it is important to do more, to do better and to do things differently.

“The ICT results developed by these projects should be self-sustainable after the end of funding. This EU-BR networking, built in the last decade, must become self-active, that is, they develop their own projects and not rely only on public funding calls.”. Carlos Oliveira, EU Delegation in Brazil.

What lies ahead for EU-BR cooperation? How is EU going to work with Brazil in the future? EU wants to support digital entrepreneurship, by creating EU-BR digital innovation hubs and explore new business opportunities. These hubs would be populated with members from the Brazilian and European networking that was built in the last decade. The future society needs smarter cities, better mobility, smart industries and e-health. Both societies require digital skills, and we need to stablish public and private partnerships, to bring together the knowledge and experience from researchers and industry players. In the next Horizon Europe, field trips to the academia, research and business areas are being considered, to support knowledge dissemination and digital skills acquisition. Plus, supporting companies that, in their core business, are not related to ICT but can obtain competitive advantages thanks to innovative IT such as AI, IoT, Cloud Computing and Robotics, amongst others would be key.

In October 2019 there will be an EU-BR policy dialogue to discuss how EU & Brazil can keep supporting each other in IT during the next roadmap. What can EU and Brazil do in Horizon Europe programme? What other public policies should be implemented? What other main stream activities, besides the joint-calls, could be pulled out together?

Paulo César Rezende de Carvalho Alvim, National Secretary for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication, also shares the opinion that digital transformation speeds up market innovation. Brazil just launched the National Plan of IoT and is working on the 5G Strategy Plan, to be launched next year, which aims to boost IoT adoption by Brazilian industry players. This technology has a high potential to solve societal problems Brazil is facing today, related to agriculture, e-health and smart cities.

Brazil is open to international cooperation. The recent joint agreement between EU and MERCOSUL (Mercado Comum do Sul) can be an open door to consolidate EU and Brazil international cooperation in ICT. However, as stated by Carlos Oliveira, both societies need to find their own resources to do more, and better, without exclusively relying on public funding programmes.

Digital skills for a digital economy. Likewise, in Europe, Brazil believes that AI, HPC and cybersecurity are priority topics that should be considered in the future, along with digital education, to boost the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Providing digital skills to Brazilians will decrease the national unemployment rate, as well as fill in several IT positions that find hard to recruit the candidate with the skills they need. However, this digital knowledge and skills need to be transformed into wealth across vertical markets, opinion also shared by Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, President of Brazilian Computing Society. Lisandro added that Brazil should include in early education programmes science computing, to help the young generations today to have promising careers in the future. Paulo reinforced that Brazil needs not only to move from an “analogical” economy to a digital one. Brazil also

Figure 1 Opening Session, with Carlos Oliveira,

Paulo César Alvim & Lisandro Granville

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needs to transform its own mind-set towards digital. Rather than exporting commodity goods, Brazil should export technology and a new generation of digital products and services.

It is very important to disseminate the new knowledge that was created thanks to EU-Brazil cooperation and keep this

transatlantic “flame” alive. Cloudscape Brazil is a prime successful event that supports the dissemination of EU-BR

excellency in ICT and increases the EU-BR community. Regardless of eventual future EU & Brazil coordinated calls, the

community is now thriving and is real and they have now the bases for, together, keep alive the legacy in the decade

ahead of us.

How to transform leadership in science into leadership in innovation and entrepreneurship

Session 2, Cloudscape Brazil

Chaired by Ignacio Blanquer, Universitat Politècnica de València & ATMOSPHERE European Coordinator

We are surrounded by creations that came from science. EU is in 3rd place on worldwide ranking by research and development spending1, while Brazil is in 11th place. However, usually researchers and scientists are not the ones who can obtain advantages from their advances that can shape our society2. Besides making the technology better, it is crucial to have industry expertise on bringing it to market. In EU and Brazil cases’, the first is working towards the creation of a truly Digital Single Market, while the second is working on a Brazilian Strategy for Digital Transformation to prepare Brazil for the global digital transformation. How both governments should work together to exploit a joint-digital market, based also on research, and become an active player in worldwide landscape? This was discussed by EU and Brazilian Policy Members & industry experts in the second panel.

Open Data to foster open science. Open research is essential to leverage economic and sustainable development of nations, according to Alex Moura, Brazilian National Research and Educational Network (RNP) and Research Data Alliance (RDA) in Brazil. Many benefits may be achieved thanks to Open Science, such as: 1) Efficiency (reduce research duplication efforts and costs); 2) Quality and integrity (to avoid fraud or errors); 3) Economic (by increasing access to research results), 4) Innovation and Technology Transfers (to produce new products or services) and 5) Ability to develop an open eco-system of entities able to face global challenges (e.g., climate change or the aging population). Open Science helps to identify solutions more effectively.

Countries must work jointly and embrace international initiatives to make Open Science a reality. Brazil, as well as other 78 countries from all around the world, including European ones, are part of the Open Government Partnership3, an international organisation where government leaders and civil society members work together on how government serves citizens. In Brazil, this initiative is supporting the country in its “4th National Action Plan for Open Government4” and also on “Innovation and Open Government in Science”, along with RDA Brazil. In 2018, RNP published 2 reports on “Open Data Access in Brazil”5, a result over 4.700 replies from research groups, national institutes of science and technology, amongst others, collected through a national survey on practices and perception of Brazilian researchers about open access to research data.

During the panel discussion, it was recognized that there are still barriers for open data, mostly related to competition within research, between the researchers but also between countries. It is important to find mechanisms to improve “data openness” and the EU is strongly promoting open data science, by only funding proposals which embrace open data. All in all, data policies shall be defined, as well as data certification policies.

1 Sources: http://uis.unesco.org/apps/visualisations/research-and-development-spending/ | https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/GB.XPD.RSDV.GD.ZS 2 Source: https://qz.com/502143/why-scientists-make-bad-entrepreneurs-and-how-to-change-that/ 3 Website: www.opengovpartnership.org 4 Document (in portuguese): http://governoaberto.cgu.gov.br/no-brasil/copy_of_planos-de-acao/4o-plano-de-acao-brasileiro/4o-plano-de-acao-nacional_portugues.pdf 5 Source (in Portuguese): http://dadosabertos.rnp.br/dataverse/gtrdpbrasil

Open science data is defined as a specific type of open data focused on publishing observations and results of scientific activities in a way such results can be analysed and reused by anyone

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Technological Parks to foster business integration. Science and Technology Parks (SciTech Parks) is one of

the most popular innovation and collaboration environments in Brazil. Rodrigo Quites, President of PCT Guamá

(Guamá Technological & Science Park) highlighted that these parks,

already more than 100 in Brazil, have a great impact in country’s

economic development, by integrating within industry the

technology developed by Academia, with the support of the

government. The PCT Guamá, created in 2010, is the only SciTech

Park in the Amazon. It provides a technical program for

entrepreneurship, with 15 laboratories & research centers, over 50

SMEs from a wide variety of fields (software, cosmetic,

biotechnology, food production, agriculture, fintech, amongst

others. By working closely with local institutions, the PCT Guamá was

able to provide IT solutions that are helping local community and

economy: IoT solution to monitor the need of irrigation of Açaí land

crops, cellular communication in remote villages, mobile game to assist math learning, virtual reality solutions for

training industrial settings and much more. By establishing local, regional and international partnerships with these 3

key players (government, research and industry) the business integration is smoother and more successful.

International centres to empower innovation actors. On a more international perspective, João Pedro Ribeiro from ENRICH Brazil & Brazilian National Confederation of Industry, defended a very similar point of view. ENRICH Brazil is a European Network of Research and Innovation Centres and Hubs in Brazil, aiming to become the main hub and contact point for European & Brazilian Science, Technology and Innovation actors.

“In order to link government, research and business actors, ENRICH provides a portfolio of services to help their members in different frontlines so they can do business by hitting the ground running: guidelines to do business in both regions, matchmaking & business roundtables events, training on key topics, business development, marketing legislation, amongst others” João Ribeiro, ENRICH Brazil & Brazilian National Confederation of Industry.

On a national level, to promote a similar economic and social development across Brazil, the country created the National Confederation of Industry (CNI) and the Network of SENAI Innovation Institutes (ISIs) which general goals are to foster Brazilian industry competitiveness exploiting applied research and innovation results.

Preliminary Research Priorities Report with EU-BR priorities in ICT. The Horizon 2020 programme has been a central vehicle for cooperation between Europe and Brazil, fact recognized in the last “Joint Steering Committee of the "EU-Brazil Cooperation Agreement on Science and Technology" (April 2019)6. How Horizon Europe, the European programme, keep up with the success from its predecessor? Priscila Solis from University of Brasilia, presented the “EU-BR Preliminary Research Priorities Report”7 developed within the ATMOSPHERE. This report updated the “Final research Roadmap” delivered by EUBrasilCloudForum, with new trends and insights collected during Cloudscape Brazil 2018 and other relevant documents related to ICT trends in both regions.

It is crucial that EU and Brazil have the same vision, to achieve global goals and harmonize processes, technologies, industries and, ultimately, their societies. For this, some relevant challenges must be addressed, to achieve more ambitious goals in the future, listed in the Table 1. Furthermore, while focusing their efforts on the topics indicated in the table, EU-Brazil shall as well pay attention to other factors that support market development between both regions. The report also provides a list of recommendations that policy makers shall consider when defining new cooperation initiatives between EU and Brazil.

Table 1 Preliminary Research Priorities for EU-Brazil

Preliminary Research Priorities HPC as market innovation enabler in Cloud Environments

Trustworthy Cloud Computing & Secure digital environments

Manufacturing and IoT as a trigger for new digital markets

Cyber infrastructure for e-science

6 Source: https://ec.europa.eu/research/iscp/index.cfm?pg=brazil 7 Source: https://www.atmosphere-eubrazil.eu/d23-preliminary-research-priorities-report

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Preliminary Research Priorities Transatlantic environments for advancing education and experimentation

Cloud to the Edge

International Standards & Legislation : FAIR data and legislation for data protection

EU-BR funded projects’ sustainability & international collaboration

5G Architectures for Vertical Markets

Table 2 Preliminary Recommendations for EU-Brazil

Preliminary Recommendations Involve end-users & industry in research consortia

Require go-to-market strategies in future funded projects: exploitation plan, to be implemented before project conclusion

Provide networking events: joint-events to share results

Use assets from previous projects: require the use of assets resulted from previous research projects in future ones, to ensure their sustainability

Ensure meaningful impact in EU-BR societies

Ensure that a CSA is active & support SIGs: to guarantee that EU-BR cooperation has support from experts whose only goal is to reinforce the cooperation

The final version of this report will be made available by October 2019, proposing a final list of maximum 6 research topics, that will be shared with EU and Brazilian governments. This report will include feedback of the engaged communities, through an open call, which will be available soon to the public.

Cloud as a generator for the next wave of technologies & shapes innovative IT

developments

Session 3, Cloudscape Brazil

Chaired by Francisco Brasileiro, Federal University of Campina Grande & ATMOSPHERE Brazilian Coordinator

The dramatic growth in digital technologies and cloud computing over recent years has since changed market mind-set. Digital transformation, which includes artificial intelligence, Big Data analytics, IoT, and other emerging technologies, is fast becoming a key requirement for organisations to be innovative and remain competitive. Cloud Computing is taping the power of other technologies that are empowering the digital economy: IoT, AI, Big Data, Edge Computing & other related technologies. This panel discussed how cloud computing is empowering other novel IT technologies & keep having a relevant role in market innovation.

Intelligent Edge: when you bring AI to the EDGE. AI is becoming a very promising technology and it is expected that the AI market will reach USD 9.5 billion in revenue significantly through 2022, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 36,7%. This technology can be applied in many different sectors that will allow business growth in many different sectors, such healthcare and agriculture (e.g AI to reduce the amount of pesticides in vineyards by collecting and analyzing data in place, reducing toxins usage).

Danilo Ardagna from Politecnico di Milano added that, however, the usage of this technology required that some AI driven component will be involved at various levels of the cloud/edge servers/AI enabled sensors stack. Cloud Computing can play a major role on taking the most out of what AI has to offer. A hierarchical architecture, involving cloud, edge and IoT devices, enables the usage of AI in all layers, taking the most of the data and processing capacity, Nevertheless, there are many challenges that should be addressed, such as the interoperability between frameworks, flexibility in the usage of evolving capabilities, privacy and security, autonomic deployment and runtime adjustments.

Smarter agriculture thanks to IT. Carlos Kamienski from Federal University of ABC, reinforced the idea that not only cloud plays a major role not only in AI but also IoT. Carlos brought to the table the SWAMP example, a EU-BR project focused on IoT application in Smart Agriculture, mainly through new approaches for smart water management in precision irrigation domain, with pilots already running in Europe and Brazil. Smart farming based on

Figure 3 Cloudscape Brazil Session 3

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IoT technologies will enable growers and farmers to reduce waste and enhance productivity ranging from the quantity of fertilizer utilized to the number of journeys the farm vehicles have made.

Carlos highlighted the challenge of getting the data from the field into the cloud, enabling the IoT continuum: from

the sensor device, to the mist (aggregator in the field, such as an enhanced LORA gateways), to the fog (a machine on

the farm office), and finally to the large scale cloud. In the cloud,

sophisticated decisions can be computed, and operation plans can

come back to automated actuators such as irrigation pumps and to

humans that operate directly on the field.

Exploring other possibilities, Prof. Carlos presented architectures

where the cloud infrastructure was not present, and most things run

in the edge. Another possible model is with different companies that

could be present in the ecosystem, providing custom services and

making the system a mesh of cloud services.

Connecting Robots to the Connected World via Cloud Computing. Cloud robotics is a field of robotics that attempts to invoke cloud technologies such as computing, storage, and other Internet technologies centered on the benefits of converged infrastructure and shared services for robotics. However, according to Sascha Griffiths from Ortelio, there are many problems to be addressed with cloud robotics, for example: complex development, requiring lots of human resources; and the low computation intelligence on each robot.

It is important to bring AI-related services to robotics in a more manageable complexity and this is what Ortelio is doing. Their platform has multiple types of sensors and robot platforms. He then discussed his vision of a marketplace for robot aps, which would bring additional flexibility and power through the now ubiquitous platform ROS.

“When connected to the cloud, robots can benefit from the powerful computation, storage, and communication resources of modern data centres in the cloud, which can process and share information from various robots or agents (other machines, smart objects, humans, etc.). Cloud computing technologies enable robot systems to be endowed with powerful capability whilst reducing costs through cloud technologies” Sascha Griffiths, Ortelio.

To conclude, it was said that, when using these technologies to deal with data, it is crucial to ensure enough

bandwidth to support these intelligent systems (e.g. 5G), as well as the confidential and trusted computing for

preserving confidentiality and integrity.

The ATMOSPHERE User Journey: new spectrum of trustworthy services usable by a diverse set of organisations, across different business sectors –

Session 4, Cloudscape Brazil

Chaired by Altigran da Silva, Federal University of Amazonas

ATMOSPHERE is enabling different levels of trustworthiness for applications and data on a federated cloud, and the ability to measure trust a priori (before deployment) and dynamically during execution (during runtime). This session demonstrated how ATMOSPHERE results make life easier for Software Development Professionals, as well as Cloud Service Providers, Open Source Communities and startups, SMEs and IT Vendors in general.

ATMOSPHERE: An architecture for trustworthy cloud services. Francisco Brasileiro, Federal University of

Campina Grande & ATMOSPHERE Brazilian Coordinator presented in general the ATMOSPHERE project, which is

developing an architecture that can be used for the implementation and deployment of trustworthy cloud services.

“ATMOSPHERE is benefiting from IT assets developed by previous EU-BR funded projects, such as EUBrazilClouConnect, SecureCloud and EUBraBIGSEA. In fact, the usage of results from previous EU-BR projects is being fundamental for ATMOSPHERE work.” Francisco Brasileiro, Federal University of Campina Grande & ATMOSPHERE Brazilian Coordinator.

The ATMOSPHERE platform has two kinds of services: federation-wide services and service toolboxes (embedded in

trustworthy applications that run on top of a federation infrastructure). Both application and platform designed by

The internet of things (IoT) and cloud-based providers are bound at the hip. Cloud computing and IoT have become two very closely affiliated future internet technologies with one providing the

other a platform for success.

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ATMOSPERE partners, considers trustworthiness properties in both design time and execution time since the

trustworthiness scores can change during the application lifetime (while others can be defined during application

design). The main trustworthy properties considered in the project include security, privacy, stability, fairness and

transparency.

Integration of the Trustworthiness Assessment with Industry Systems. Marco Vieira from University of

Coimbra presented the main features of one ATMOSPHERE’s service: Trustworthiness Monitoring and Adaptation layer of Atmosphere (TMA). The TMA handles heterogeneous data while providing high portability & interoperability. It can be used to deploy a federation wide server to be used by developers to assess the trustworthiness of their applications, or used by applications themselves. The novelty of TMA already caught attention of IT large companies such as Dell EMC (which was integrated with CloudEA solution for security risk assessment and monitoring) and Talkdesk (integration with Talkconnect for scalability, QoS, security and privacy assessment and adaptation). The TMA successful example of industry adoption of one service developed by a EU-BR ICT project. Marco believes that “Trustworthiness” is a new concept and in ATMOSPHERE project it is considered in multiple dimensions (i.e., it considers different properties and each application can choose a subset of them that are interesting for it). In fact, “trustworthiness” and its properties and scores are still not well understood, namely from industry players: it is crucial to understand their relations, importance and why they are relevant for the organisation core business.

Trustworthy cloud services for Medical Imaging Biomarkers. On behalf of Eduardo Camacho form QUIBIM,

Ignacio Blanquer from Universitat Politècnica de València & ATMOSPHERE European Coordinator explained how

ATMOSPHERE supported QUIBIM to overcame a limitation the company had in their infrastructure, related to the

lack of evaluation of the trustworthiness of their services. By using ATMOSPHERE infrastructure, QUIBIM designed

and developed a new analysis method to analyse imaging biomarkers, while protecting their sensitive data, thanks

to the integration made within the ATMOSPHERE environment.

Secure containers for trustworthy cloud services: business opportunities. Andre Martin, Technische

Universität Dresden presented SCONE, an ATMOSPHERE service that supports always encrypted code and data. It is

a secure container orchestration for trustworthy cloud services,

which does not trust in any individual operator. SCONE was created

to the lack of trust the user have from the clouds service provider,

due to the vulnerability it may have from attacks. SCONE protects

the confidentiality, integrity and freshness of data and code, even

from attackers with root privileges. It is a service that supports

different stakeholders that are involved in the service pipeline:

data scientist, service provider, application provider, data owner,

auditors and infrastructure provider. SCONE is a toll that can be very

useful for organisations from medical, AI & machine learning, block

chain and other domains.

Innovative ICT services & competitive partnerships: PITCH of EU-BR entities/initiatives that together are unblocking innovation in transatlantic economy

Session 5, Cloudscape Brazil

Chaired by Rita Meneses, Trust-IT Services

A total of 13 Brazilian & European SMEs, start-ups and EU-BR projects were given the floor to present their tools in an interactive 4-min PITCH session, with the opportunity to connect with attendees from Europe and Brazil and find new partners for joint activities.

Imaging biomarker is a parameter obtained objectively from medical images which represents and quantifies a tissue property (structural, functional or biological). It is extracted after applying computational models or Artificial Intelligence to the images.

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Increasing Trustworthiness of Cloud Computing

ATMOSPHERE project on the ball towards a cloud computing trustworthy, with several demos showcasing how ATMOSPHERE is increasing trustworthiness levels on Cloud Computing. To start, Andrey Brito, from Federal University of Campina Grande, showcased the Data and Application Tracking (DNAt) an ATMOSPHERE service, a platform for confidential data processing and tracking of execution of applications over sensitive data in untrusted or open environments. With DNAt, data producers and developers of confidential applications can securely share their assets without risking leaking sensitive information or intellectual property (demo).

Marco Vieira, from University of Coimbra, presented “Trustworthiness Assessment and Monitoring Framework” (TMA), an ATMOSPHERE asset that allows self-adaptation on cloud applications through trustworthiness quality models and scores. TMA Platform allows self-adaptation in cloud applications through the evaluation of trustworthiness scores based on any trustworthiness attributes (such as security, privacy, coherence, isolation, stability, fairness, transparency, and dependability). Hence, any cloud application provider who wants to customize self-adaptation can use TMA Platform (demo)

Amanda Calatrava, from Universitat Politècnica de València, presented Elastic clusters on top of federated transatlantic hybrid resources, an infrastructure composed of several cloud providers that are geographically distributed, which automatically expands or reduces managed resources and ensure communication and execution through different Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers (demo).

Ronny Guimarães, from Federal University of Amazonas, was in charge of presenting “Vallum: Framework for Access & Privacy Protection”, a framework for data protection in third-party environments, ensuring security and that queries do not violate access and privacy policies defined by the data owner. Vallum can be seen as a layer to protect the data and the data engine from direct access. It is based on SCONE (an ATMOSPHERE asset) and represents the trustworthy way to store and process data in the cloud (demo).

Wagner Meira, from Federal University of Minas Gerais showcased the demo “Executing Keras applications with Lemonade on top of Kubernetes in a trustworthy infrastructure”, a platform to create, test and run machine learning models, to create neural network models using Keras framework. Lemonade (an ATMOSPHERE asset) provides a set of tools to help data scientists to test and evaluate model's results regarding properties such as privacy, stability, fairness and transparency (demo).

Moving Cloud Computing to the next level

Billy Pinheiro, from Federal University of Pará, involved in NECOS project, presented “E2E Cloud Network Slice between BR-EU using the NECOS platform”. Each of these slices is a set of computational and networking resources created with the purpose that customer users (tenants) can run one or several application services on top. The slicing in NECOS can be performed either at the resource level or the virtual infrastructure management level of each of the administrative domains contributing to a slice (demo). A poster was also showcased at CDBC demo area (poster)

Sascha Griffiths, from the European SME called Ortelio, showcased “Noos Cloud Intelligence”, a cloud robotics platform which provides cognitive augmentation for robots. By delivering AI-enabled services in real-time via the cloud, Noos significantly enhances the usefulness of service robots. Using Noos cloud platform enriches applications because objects, faces, sounds, voices, locations, and many other things, can be shared across different robots enabling cooperation of robots in a novel manner (demo). A poster was also showcased at CDBC demo area (poster).

Last but not least, Fernando Redigolo, from University of Sao Paulo, submitted the CloudNEXT Testbed demo (which did not present at the event due to last minute problems), a testbed that offers researchers baremetal resources as well as customized baremetal clusters, specifically Openstack clouds (demo).

Figure 5 Session 5 PITCH on Increasing Trustworthiness

of Cloud Computing

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Figure 6 Session 5 PITCH on Moving Cloud Computing to the next level

Blockchain technology, 5G and 3D simulations

Raul Nascimento, from Mundo Digital Interativo (a SME based on Belém) presented its “3D Simulator Vibration Analysis”, a 3D simulation that can be used with advantages for the accomplishment of courses in the area of Engineering and Technology. The training course in Mechanical Vibration Analysis developed by the company allows the simulation of an industry scenario, with a hydraulic pump system driven by an electric motor, along with other simulated situations (demo).

Also from Belém, the “Traceability using Blockchain” demo from Amachains was presented also by Billy Pinheiro. Amachains' goal is to develop a compliance tracking system with blockchain clouds, creating an ecosystem that facilitates the adoption of technology while adding value to the consumers and especially to small producers of family farming. The demo describes step-by-step how to include the data and how these become a traceable system using blockchain (demo). ). A poster was also showcased at CDBC demo area (poster).

Priscila Solis, from University of Brasilia, who is involved in 5G-Range EU-BR funded project, showcased the project demo, entitled “5G for Remote Areas Access”. The project is providing a solution for remote areas, thanks to a mobile broadband to overcome the current limitations in range in 4G and 5G standards. Thanks to this technology, the project is providing smart agriculture and digital inclusion to these remote communities, while integrating this technology with other IT applications (demo).

IoT hands-in-hands with non-ICT business sectors

Carlos Kamienski, from Federal University of ABC, showcased the work he has been developing at SWAMP, a EU-BR funded project. The “SWAMP Smart Water Management” is a IoT-based smart water management platform for precision irrigation in agriculture with a hands-on approach based on four pilots in Brazil, Italy and Spain. Its platform can be configured and deployed in different ways thus making up different SWAMP Systems, customized to deal with the requirements and constraints of different settings, countries, climate, soils, and crops (demo).

The demo entitled “FASTEN ThyssenKrupp Use Case”, submitted by Miguel Xavier, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, was presented by Wanderson Paim de Jesus (RNP). FASTEN, likewise ATMOSPHERE, NECOS and SWAMP, is one of the EU-BR funded projects that is embraces the challenge of implementing a Smart Robotic Additive Manufacturing Network, improving the production and logistics of spare parts trough a decentralize manufacturing network. Maintenance services, spare parts lead-time, manufacturing, and inventory costs can be enhanced by incorporating Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in a digital end-to-end value stream, supported by analytical decision-making approaches. The Thyssenkrupp's use case is a set FASTEN-driven systems that integrate a Smart Robotic Additive Manufacturing Unit composed of 3D printers and a Mobile Manipulator Robot with the ThyssenKrupp maintenance operation process, aiming to provide flexibility, scalability and agility to cope with spare parts demand (demo).

Figure 7 Session 5 PITCH on Blockchain technology, 5G and 3D

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Figure 8 Session 5 PITCH on IoT hands-in-hands with non-ICT business sectors

The full set of demos can be found at https://www.atmosphere-eubrazil.eu/services-demo-2019 (See Annex 1) while the full set of posters, even from organisations that did not presented demos (e.g. Força Motriz) are available at https://www.atmosphere-eubrazil.eu/posters-2019 (see Annex 3).

Demo area to maximize visibility with a global audience from CSBC and engage potential adopters and partners. Demos could also be showcased in the dedicated Demo area at CSBC, strategically located at the CSBC welcome area and in the main conference room lobby area. This demo was another opportunity to engage with the conference participants that did not join this session in Cloudscape Brazil.

Cloudscape Brazil immediate impact – Connecting SMEs for Innovative ICT services

Thanks to Cloudscape Brazil, a place aimed also to connect ICT experts from both sides of the Atlantic, 2 innovative SMEs from Europe and Brazil, listed in EUBrasilCloudFORUM marketplace, identified a collaboration opportunity, by connecting different technologies towards a common goal.

Amachains8(a Brazilian SME specialized in Blockchain) and Ortelio9 (a German SME working on Cloud Robotics) are discussing how to securely distribute robot software. Plus, both SMEs are exploring how robots can be used in agriculture contexts, by using different technologies, such as AI. Right after Cloudscape Brazil and before returning to Europe, Ortelio visited farms Amachains is supporting, as well as Embrapa10 (Agricultural Research Cooperation of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply).

Cloudscape Brazil provided an opportunity for these 2 companies to setup the “pillars” for a truly and promising transatlantic collaboration on ICT, with potential to have positive impact to local citizens.

Figure 9 Ortelio & Amachains in Belém discussing synergies

8 Webpage: https://www.eubrasilcloudforum.eu/en/amachains-amaz%C3%B4nia-blockchain-solutions 9 Webpage: https://www.eubrasilcloudforum.eu/en/ortelio-ltd-united-kingdom 10 Webpage: https://www.embrapa.br/en/international

Curious about the demo area? Check the video

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WCN Opening Session - 4th Call EU-BR Project Demonstrations

Session 1, WCN, 16th July

Chaired by Lucas Bondan, CTIC/RNP

This session was dedicated to provide an overview of each project from the EU-BR 4th coordinated call.

Cilis Benevides, from WDA Tecnologia & Inovação, presented the OCARIoT, a EU-BR funded project smart focused on childhood Obesity CARing solution using IoT potential. OCARIoT aims at providing a customized obesity coaching plan while enabling children to remain active and engaged in their well-being and healthy habits management. The consortium ensures children’s rights and data privacy, security and confidentiality through an Ethics Board composed by healthcare professionals and children representatives from different EU and Brazil organisations. The OCARIoT results are being validated on three specific pilot sites in Spain, Greece and Brazil.

The following panellists gave more info about the projects that were showcased during “Cloudscape Brazil Session 5: PITCH of EU-BR entities/initiatives that together are unblocking innovation in transatlantic economy”. Francisco Brasileiro, from Federal University in Campina Grande, gave an overview of ATMOSPHERE which is addressing the concept of trust based on guarantees, previous successful experiences, transparency and accountability. So far, the project has many results, namely: 1) Trustworthiness Monitoring and Assessment Framework; 2) Cloud services managing federated and hybrid resources – performance prediction service and proactive rules; 3) Distributed Trustworthy Data Services 4) Trustworthy Data Processing Services and 5) SME Telehealth Use Case: Design of a Biomaker Pilot Application and Demonstrator.

Carlos Kamienski, from Federal University of ABC, presented SWAMP project aims at developing a high-precision smart irrigation system concept for agriculture. The SWAMP platform provides real time responses for adapting irrigation as the environment conditions changes. It results to savings to all parties as it detects all the leakages and losses and guarantees better the availability of water in situations where water supply is limited.

NECOS, another Cloud Computing project, was presented by Billy Pinheiro from Federal University of Pará. NECOS addresses the limitations of current cloud computing infrastructures to respond to the demand for new services, as presented in two use-cases, that will drive the whole execution of the project: 1) Telco service provider that is oriented towards the adoption of cloud computing in their large networks; 2) Use of edge clouds to support devices with low computation and storage capacity.

Priscila Solis from University of Brasilia was in charge of 5G-Range, dedicated to provide an 5th Access Network Generation to Remote Areas. Briefly, the project consists in the design, develop, implement and validate the mechanisms to enable the 5G network to provide an economically effective solution for Internet access for remote areas. The solutions are integrated into a Proof-of-Concept testbed to allow for field performance evaluation and real case demonstrations.

Special Interest Group (SIG) in Cloud Computing Plan Action for 2019-2021 - Session 2, WCN, 16th July

Chaired by Priscila Solís, University of Brasilia

This panel was focused on the Cloud Computing Special Interest Group (SIG), one of the outcomes from EUBrasilCloudFORUM project.

Thais Batista, Vice-President of SBC, supported by Carlos Ferraz from University of Pernambuco, gave an overview on how SBC maintains a structure of Thematic Groups (GT – Grupos Temáticos) that join SBC members with common interests. There are 3 types of GT: 1) Major Areas; 2) Special Commissions; 3) Interest Groups (where the Cloud Computing SIG is included). The SIGs need to follow certain requirements, namely: have at least 10 SBC members from 3 different institutions, organize an annual or biennial workshop in the event associated, nominate a coordinator and others. The SIG on Cloud Computing already addressed all the requirements, while the almost approved IoT SIG still needs to address some of them.

José Marcos Nogueira, from Federal University of Minas Gerais, updated the audience on how is the IoT SIG evolving. The pre-SIG pretends to organise IoT tracks at SBC events, as well as publish special issues at journals. There

The 2019 edition of WCN is the first one fully organised by the Cloud Computing SIG and it will be organised annually.

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is a IoT discussion mailing list available to all those interested in the topic (giiotl@sbc.org.br) and the coordinator of IoT SIG can be contacted through guto@lisha.ufsc.br.

WCN and Cloudscape Brazil Position Papers - Session 3, WCN, 16th July

Chaired by Rita Meneses, Trust-IT Services

At this session, 11 out of the 15 Position Papers submitted on Cloudscape Brazil 2019 were presented. The panellists included representatives from the Position Papers’ authors. Each author briefly introduced and presented the ideas behind each position paper (see full list in Annex ), which promoted interesting discussions on the selected subjects.

The most popular topic was “Cloud Computing”, with 4 papers submitted, as expected, since Cloudscape Brazil is focused on Cloud Computing. These papers focused on different cloud topics: cloud federated infrastructures, the usage of cloud and IoT for cancer research, process medical data on trustworthy cloud services and optimization models in the cloud. The following two popular topics were “IoT” and “AI”, with 3 position papers submitted each. The IoT position papers address topics such as how to design an open IoT Ecosystem, IoT and 5G NFV Environment, as well as how to use IoT in Autonomous Manufacturing Systems for Custom-Designed Products.

“Digitizing Industry” comes on 3rd place in the ranking, with 2 position papers submitted, both highlighting how 5G allows new business models and support the integration of satellite communications. One position paper on “Common EU-BR Regulation for Trust in Digital Environments” was submitted. This paper compares the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) approved in Europe, with the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD) approved in Brazil.

The full set of position papers can be found at https://www.atmosphere-eubrazil.eu/papers-2019.

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15 Memorable Take aways & Recommendations

Policy Recommendations on EU-BR Cooperation

1. Invest on high-value technologies that solve societal problems, promote social economic development and give pillars for Industry 4.0: HPC, AI, Advanced Manufacturing, Cyber Security, 5G.

2. Support digital entrepreneurship, by organising networking events, creating international digital innovation hubs to explore new business opportunities thanks to ICT, while providing a portfolio of services to help organisations in different frontlines.

3. Embrace Public and Private Partnerships, bringing together the knowledge and experience from researchers and industry.

4. Give support to non-ICT companies, to get competitive advantages thanks to innovative ICT technologies (AI, IoT, Robotics, Cloud Computing).

5. Organise field trips/intensive programmes to academia, research and industry members, to support knowledge dissemination and consolidate digital skills acquisition.

6. Ensure that EU-BR projects are self-sustainable after the end of funding and have conditions to keep having impact by its own means, without relying on public funding calls.

7. Support the integration of physical and digital technologies, to combine product development, manufacturing and logistics planning, and to link systems, machines and human labour.

Next Steps & Recommendations for EU-Brazil

8. Setup “Science and Technology Parks”, with academia and industry players, where together they can find solutions for both regions and, therefore, have a positive impact on economy.

9. Provide digital skills & knowledge for the young generations that will develop a new generation of digital services and bring wealth across vertical markets.

10. Invest jointly in Open Science programmes, define data certification policies and mechanisms to improve “data openness” (e.g. fund only programmes that have “open data”) to identify solutions more effectively.

11. Support the “smart city” mind-set: better mobility, smart industries, accessible e-health, inclusive societies, for more dynamic economies.

12. Invest on Cloud Computing programmes, to exploit its potential on supporting AI, IoT and robotics development.

13. Involve end-users & industry in project consortia and disseminate each technology potential

through joint university-industry activities, to develop ICT services that help industry to overcome

their business limitations and to ensure technology adoption by market players.

14. Create demonstration platforms that encourage and motivate companies to adopt digital

technologies for industrial production and increase their competitiveness.

15. Ensure that “trustworthiness” concept and its properties are understood from industry players, as well as its importance for the company’s core business.

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Annexes

Annex 1

PITCH of EU-BR entities/initiatives that together are unblocking innovation in transatlantic economy, 15th July.

Cloudscape Brazil supported 3 SMEs from Europe and Brazil, 4 EU-BR and 1 other initiative to engage with potential partners, from a European and Brazilian audience and maximise visibility, by pitching their services.

These organisations, most of them already part of EUBrasilCloudFORUM marketplace, were able to share the company's story, services and objectives to a global audience of research analysts, industry representatives, SMEs, start-ups and policy makers from Europe and Brazil.

See all services demos in this page: https://www.atmosphere-eubrazil.eu/services-demo

ICT Service Organisation/Initiative Speaker Country

Data And Application Tracking (Demo) ATMOSPHERE Andrey Brito Brazil

Elastic clusters on top of federated transatlantic hybrid resources (Demo)

ATMOSPHERE Amanda Calatrava Spain

Vallum: Framework for Access & Privacy Protection (Demo)

ATMOSPHERE Ronny Guimarães Brazil

Noos Cloud Intelligence (Demo) Ortelio Sascha Griffiths, Germany

SWAMP: Smart Water Management Platform (Demo)

SWAMP Carlos Kamienski Brazil

Executing Keras applications with Lemonade on top of Kubernetes in a trustworthy infrastructure (Demo)

ATMOSPHERE Wagner Meira Brazil

3D Simulator Vibration Analysis (Demo) Mundo Digital

Interativo Raul Nascimento Brazil

Amachains - Traceability using Blockchain (Demo)

Amachains Billy Pinheiro Brazil

CloudNEXT Testbed (Demo) University of Sao Paulo Fernando Redigolo Brazil

5G for Remote Areas Access (Demo) 5G-RANGE Priscila Solis Brazil

E2E Cloud Network Slice between BR-EU using the NECOS platform (Demo)

NECOS Billy Pinheiro Brazil

Promoting Self-Adaptation on Cloud Applications through TMA (Demo)

ATMOSPHERE Marco Vieira Portugal

FASTEN ThyssenKrupp Use Case (Demo) FASTEN Miguel Xavier Brazil

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Annex 2

Session 3, Workshop on Cloud Networks, 26th July: “WCN and Cloudscape Brazil Position Papers”. Position Paper list

All Position Papers available here: https://www.atmosphere-eubrazil.eu/papers-2019

N° Position Paper Title Intro Authors

1 On the development of a Visual-Temporal-awareness Rheumatic Heart Disease classifier for Echocardiographic Videos

Topic: Artificial Intelligence

Link Full Paper

Rapid progress is being made in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), as milestones are being passed in a wide range of areas, including image understanding and medical diagnosis. With the processing power rapidly evolving and the increasing data availability, learning methods such as convolutional neural networks are playing a crucial role in making sense from images and videos. In this position paper, we propose to use 3D convolutions to model the temporal dependencies between video frames from echocardiogram data. We applied the 3-dimensional Convolutional Neural Network (C3D) proposed by Tran, Du et al. for automatic identification of exams as Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) Positive or Negative…

João Francisco Barreto da Silva Martins, João Martins, Washington Ramos, Bruno Nascimento, Wagner Jr, Gisele Pappa, Craig Sable, Andrea Beaton, Paulo Gomes, Antonio Ribeiro, Ericksoon Nascimento

2 Use Case on Flexible and Autonomous Manufacturing Systems for Custom-Designed Products

Topic: Internet of Things

Link Full Paper

The use of IoT in different industries is establishing a new technological paradigm for manufacturing and sales. The possibilities of the Industry 4.0, fostered by additive manufacturing, goes from a web-based integration of production lines to the possibility of high-quality personalized products. In the Brazilian scenario, however, the use of such technologies is moving slowly. In this sense, the promotion of IoT solutions through joint university-industry activities may be the main path towards disseminating the possibilities of this technology, including flexible manufacturing through a robotic additive manufacturing approach…

Miguel Xavier, Ariane Pereira, Gustavo Dalmarco, Symone Gomes Soares Alcalá

3 Artificial Neural Networks for Resource Allocation in 5G Remote Area

Topic: Artificial Intelligence

Link Full Paper

5G networks promises Enhanced Mobile Communications (EMC), Massive Machine Type Communications (MMTC) and Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC). Besides these three scenarios, the scenario of "access to remote areas" can be included - in which a large cell is the main requirement. The number of mobile devices is increasing at an enormous rate with the advent of IoT, machine-to-machine communication and always-connected devices [1]. Those connected devices have wildly different traffic patterns and the infrastructure will have to support all kinds of traffics with different latency, throughput and packet loss requirements.

Gabriel Ferreira, Priscila Barreto, Marcos Caetano, Luis Pacheco

4 NECOS Project: Lightweight Slicing of Cloud Federated Infrastructures

Topic: Cloud Computing

Link Full Paper

In the past decade, the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector has experienced rapid changes in both platform scale and application scope. The diversification of service models offered in Cloud Computing (CC), such as: (i) Software as a Service (SaaS), (ii) Platform as a Service (PaaS), and (iii) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)…

Billy Pinheiro, Antonio Abelem, Rafael Pasquini, David Moura, Christian Rothenberg, Lefteris Mamatas, Panagiotis Papadimitriou, and other additional authors

5 Control Plane Data Characterisation for an 5G NFV Environment

Topic: Internet of Things

Link Full Paper

Cellular network operates as an important enabler for a handful of emerging business models and its operation demands an immense infrastructure and requires extensive investments on each new generation to acquire new equipment to support novel technologies. As an alternative to buying expensive network equipment on each advancement iteration, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) standardised the use of Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) [1], bringing network functions that were executed by specific and expensive hardware to virtualised environments. This standard allowed the inclusion of NFV on 5G network definition as a chief infrastructure component [2] alongside Software-Defined Network (SDN), another leading softwarisation technique…

Cristoffer Leite, Priscila Solis Barreto, Marcos Caetano, Eduardo Alchieri

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N° Position Paper Title Intro Authors

6 Cloud Robotics: Cognitive Augmentation for Robots via the Cloud

Topic: Artificial Intelligence

Link Full Paper

Cloud robotics is a means of both making robot software development more efficient and augmenting robot cognition. The idea of cloud robotics goes back to web-enabled robotics which was meant as an aid to autonomous robots in case their knowledge was insufficient to deal with a specific situation which programmers did not envision beforehand. However, for the past years advances in cloud computing have made the concept more powerful and cloud robotics now paves the way for robots to have advanced artificial intelligence at their disposal…

Sascha Griffiths, Stratos Arampatzis

7 Designing an Open IoT Ecosystem

Topic: Internet of Things

Link Full Paper

In the current stage of IoT deployment, developers and integrators have to build and deploy the entire end-to-end components of a smart application. In the future, sensing and actuation systems will be already in place, and new developments will have to use these legacy systems, building a complex ecosystem. In this paper, we advocate that openness is a key factor for providing interoperability and facilitating the interaction of new and existing pieces of an end-to-end IoT smart application. This view is instantiated for a smart irrigation scenario with findings and insights coming from the SWAMP project that is building a smart water management platform…

Carlos Kamienski, Juha-Pekka Soininen, Ronaldo Prati, João Kleinschmidt

8 Optimization Models for on-demand GPUs in the Cloud

Topic: Cloud Computing

Link Full Paper

Machine learning (ML) is ubiquitous nowadays, providing mechanisms to support decision making in any data rich scenario. This rise in importance of ML raises societal concerns about the trustworthiness of systems that depend on it. The highest accuracy for large datasets is often achieved by complex models that humans struggle to interpret creating a trade-off between accuracy and interpretability, both of which affect trust in the system. In this context, the new general data protection regulation (GDPR) demands that organisations take the appropriate measures to protect individuals’ data, and use it in a fair and transparent fashion…

Arezoo Jahani, Marco Lattuada, Michele Ciavotta, Danilo Ardagna and Edoardo Amaldi, Li Zhang

9 Using Computational Back-ends for Artificial Intelligence in Childhood Cancer Research

Topic: Cloud Computing

Link Full Paper

Computational imaging allows the extraction of multiparametric data, leading to a new era in Radiomics (the extraction of disease features from medical images using data-characterisation and modelling algorithms), supported by the high-throughput extraction, storage, and analysis of a large amount of quantitative imaging features with clinical surrogates (Imaging Biomarkers), providing quantitative information (Virtual Biopsies) for early disease diagnosis, phenotyping, grading, targeting therapies and evaluation of disease response to treatment. Oncologic imaging represents a suitable field for the discovery and validation of new biomarkers from different imaging modalities since oncologic patients are frequently monitored for staging and follow-up of treatment response…

Luis Martí-Bonmatí, Ángel Alberich-Bayarri, Adela Cañete, Ignacio Blanquer, Marian Bubak, Mario Aznar, Gracia Marti

10 Compliance of the privacy regulations in an international Europe-Brazil context

Topic: Common EU-BR Regulation for Trust in Digital Environments

Link Full Paper

The generalisation on the use of cloud services has created highly complex scenarios for customers and providers. The globalisation of the service providers, the use of provider complex Application Program Interface (API) stacks, the lack of knowledge of the backends directly affect the protection of the citizens concerning the management of their personal data. There is a concern on the international dimension of the cloud, the combination of multiple providers (services, resources, network, etc.) and the lack of control, especially in the liability, isolation and intervention. Moreover, in the scenario of international collaboration projects, researchers may have to face multiple regulations. In the frame of Europe and Brazil, several regulations have emerged recently in both regions…

Rita Meneses, Regina Moraes, Vasiliki Diamantopoulou, Ignacio Blanquer, Francisco Brasileiro

11 Medical data processing on trustworthy services on an international cloud offering

Topic: Cloud Computing

Link Full Paper

Trust is a choice that is based on past experience. Trust takes time to build, but trust can disappear in a second. Trusting cloud services is as complicated as trusting people. You need a way to measure it and pieces of evidence to build trust. Trust in a cloud environment is considered as the reliance of a customer on a cloud service and, consequently, on its provider. Based on the given definition of trust in cloud computing, trustworthiness can be defined as the worthiness of a service and its provider for being trusted…

Ignacio Blanquer, Wagner Meira, Angel Alberich, Antonio Ribeiro, Francisco Brasileiro

12 5G Business Models and Opportunities for SMEs as savvy providers of 5G applications and services

Topic: Digitizing Industry

Link Full Paper

The imminent arrival of 5G will bring disruption in business models for incumbent operators and verticals alike. While opportunities will surely arise for large, well-positioned market participants, the real winners may well be those SMEs who have mastered the key technologies and services enabling the new business models emerging from the inevitable disruption not only in the telecommunications ecosystem but also in the vertical sectors making use of 5G including automotive, manufacturing, health, energy, and others…

John Favaro, Jacques Magen, Stephanie Parker

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N° Position Paper Title Intro Authors

13 Mission Critical Communications – Towards 5G, Pre-commercial Procurement and the Integration of Satellite Communications

Topic: Digitizing Industry

Link Full Paper

Mission-critical communications, primarily used by law enforcement, public safety and security agencies, such as police, fire, ambulance and the military, are essential for Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) operators, protecting lives every single day and in every corner of the world.

This position paper explores on-going standardisation work for PPDR by first looking at work towards globally harmonised standards through 3GPP SA6 on mission critical applications with enablers and a development toolkit for diverse vertical industries. We then go on to look at pre-commercial procurement for PPDR through the Horizon 2020 BroadWay project before zooming in on the role of satellite networks and their gradual integration in 5G…

Stephanie Parker, John Favaro

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Annex 3

Cloudscape Brazil E WCN Posters - Full list

All Posters available here: https://www.atmosphere-eubrazil.eu/posters-2019

N° Poster Title Intro Authors

1 Amachains

Link Poster Page

Show the functionality of traceability with compliance and its added value to the end consumer and family farming

Billy Pinheiro

2 ATMOSPHERE: A Trustworthy Federated Hybrid Cloud Platform

Link Poster Page

Trustworthiness in data analytics and cloud services comprises a broad range of properties. Dimensions such as Security, Privacy protection, Quality of Services, Reliability and Fairness impose tackling a set of challenges at different layers. ATMOSPHERE (Adaptive Trustworthy Manageable Orchestrated Secure Privacy assuring Hybrid Ecosystem for REsilient Cloud Computing) is a European-Brazilian collaboration aiming at measuring and improving the different trustworthiness dimensions of data analytics applications running on the cloud. The project has designed a software architecture to provide performance simulation, Dynamic Quality of Service adaptation, vulnerability assessment, privacy leakage risk estimation and model neutrality evaluation on top of a federated cloud infrastructure. The platform supports composing data analytics workflows, defining QoS and privacy restrictions (such as using enclaves), ethical targets (for evaluating potential discrimination bias of models) and executing such workflows on top of a self-managed cloud platform.

Ignacio Blanquer

3 Força Motriz

Link Poster Page

Força Motriz, is a startup resident at PCT-Guamá, which aims to take solutions on digital platforms to its customers, always with a focus on the client with maximum productivity.

Armando Jorge Hage Filho

4 Noos - Bringing Intelligence to Robots

Link Poster Page

Noos is a cloud robotics service providing centralised intelligence to devices that are connected to it. Cloud robotics is a novel means of increasing robot performance and making them more useful in many contexts and environments. We present Ortelio's approach to sensor data processing, cloud services, and our robot app marketplace. These methods of applying cloud computing with the goal of making robots more intelligent and their development more efficient.

Sascha Griffiths

5 Novel Enablers for Cloud Slicing

Link Poster Page

A novel solution based on resource virtualization using the LSDC for automating the process of cloud configuration. NECOS enables Service Providers (SP) and Network Operators (NO) to provisioning innovative network functionalities, new services, which need to benefit from the increasing dynamicity of the ICT markets. Thus, the LSDC concept is used to enable Cloud Slicing through the Slice as a Service concept as a unified management framework for both networking and computational domains, providing intelligent orchestration for federated cloud infrastructures.

Billy Pinheiro

6 Selecting Appropriate Discrimination Aware Techniques for Machine Learning Models

Link Poster Page

A framework that facilitates the interaction between Machine Learning Practitioners and Discrimination Aware Models. Discrimination-Aware Learning has been considered a concern in Machine Learning Applications. A machine learning model may induce unwanted bias to a certain group in the classification that can be measured according to a discrimination metric. There are many techniques for Discrimination Aware Models, but, since there are many of them it becomes difficult for decision makers to choose which one suits their model better. We approach this problem by developing a framework that facilitates the interaction between Machine Learning Practitioners and Discrimination Aware Models by embedding those techniques and metrics on the framework, allowing them to decide according to their objectives.

Rodrigo Lemos Cardoso